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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise took place on March 3rd, 1820 granting Missouri as a slave state and and Main as a free state. Missouri wanted their state to admit slavery. During this time the United States was split between slave states and free states. This split in the country could be broken by new territory gained in the Mexican-American war. The balanced of the North and South was between 1820-1848.
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Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso involves David Wilmot, the United States House of Representatives, and all the people who were involved in the Mexican-American War. The Wilmot Proviso was issued on August 8th 1846. This bill was passed to help fund newly acquired territories in the united states. This event took place in Washington, DC where the House of Representatives is located along with in Mexico. This event took place because with the new territories that were acquired from Mexico there was a dispute -
Wilmot Proviso
on weather or not they would be slave states or not. The Wilmot Proviso ended up pushing the country more towards Civil War and it also ended up raising questions about where people were able to move their slaves. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was on January 29th, 1850. It was a series of 5 laws meant to solve the controversy over slavery. But the attempt at this compromised failed because of the fighting between the North and the South. The laws were to address the issues related to slavery.
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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed on September 18th, 1850. It was an act that allowed officials to arrest any slaves that were accused of being a runaway. These slaves were not allowed to a trial either after being captured. Northerners were required to help capture accused runaways. This act convinced northerners that slavery was even more evil and they began to resist the law. [https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=27&page=transcript -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle Toms Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was published on May 20th, 1852. Stowe was the daughter of an abolitionist minister and was deeply affected by the fugitive slave act. The novel was about an enslaved man who is abused by his cruel owner. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Many people even president Abraham Lincoln said that this women was the start of the civil war. This is because once people read this book they started to realize the unfairness and harsh conditions the slaved were living in and wanted to abolish slavery at once. This created arguments between the North and the South. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This event included the anti-slave states and the pro-slave states. The Kansas Nebraska Act was a border war that involved a series of violent political confrontations in the United States that included anti-slavery and pro-slavery in Kansas. There was an attack in Lawrence by pro-slavery raiders in 1856. In the mid 1850's Lecompton (a city in Kansas) constitution was represented with pro-slavery. This event also helped lead up into the event known as the Civil War. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott and an army surgeon John Emerson were the people who took a huge place in this event. During this event Dred Scott's 'owner' decided that because his slave(s) were his property, he was able to take them anywhere he wanted even if the area didn't allow slaves. Scott decided that because he was in an area where he was able to be free, he was a freeman and took the situation to court. The court that he took the situation to was the United States Supreme Court. -
Dred Scott Case
This event changed many things but overall people ended up realizing that because he was not a freeman, the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln Douglas Debate was a series of formal debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephan Douglas. The debates occurred 1858. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had a series of seven debates. Lincoln was the candidate from the republican side and Douglas was the candidate from the democratic side. All of these debates took place in Illinois. This event made Lincoln a very important character with political situations. While the debates were going on it helped Lincoln get a more important place in politics and he seemed to be taken a lot more seriously. -
John Brown Harpers Ferry
AKA, John browns raid. John brown was an abolitionist with a some of supporters. On October 16th, 1859, ventured outside of their safe house, a farm house, headed to Harpers Ferry. October 17th, John and his followers captured the citizens and raided the weapons arsenal. He had hoped that the slaves in the area would rise up and join him but they did not. John brown and his men were bombarded by the militia and were held up in the arsenals engine house. Robert E. lee captured John the 17th. -
John Brown harper ferry
John was then placed onto trial he was charged with treason and murder. John was then hung on December 2nd, 1859. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was the election for the next american president. the election was held, November 6th, 1860. The candidates in the election were. Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckenridge, Stephan A. Douglas, and John Bell. Abraham Lincoln defeated them all, causing problems for the southerns. -
Seccesion
in 1860, 11 southern states seceded from the Union. To secede is to withdraw, or to break apart from a membership, or body. 1860-1861 11 state seceded from the union, due to the election of Abraham Lincoln, who the southern states believed was going to abolish slavery. Although Abe never said what he stood for politically, he did debate over the issue of slavery.
